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AFRO 5101 - Seminar: Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative frameworks, related theories, and pivotal texts in study of Africa and African Diaspora.

AFRO 5103 - World History and Africa

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3103/Afro 5103
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Contributions of African American thinkers to making of African history/strategies to rework theoretical/analytical foundations of world history. Writings/intellectual networks of major thinkers whose historical/ethnographic works on Africa spanning nineteenth to twentieth century. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

AFRO 5120 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbean. Black socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries. Colonialism/racism. Protest organizations, radical movements in United States/Europe. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

AFRO 5191 - Seminar: The African American Experience in South Africa

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5191/Hist 5438
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Ideological, political, religious, and cultural ties that have informed African American and black South African relations from late 18th century to present.

AFRO 5910 - Topics in African American and African Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics vary by instructor.

AFRO 8202 - Seminar: Intellectual History of Race

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.

AFRO 8554 - Seminar: Gender, Race, Nation, and Policy--Perspectives from Within the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Interdisciplinary analysis of U.S. domestic and foreign policies as they affect Africans and peoples of African descent in the diaspora. Intersections of gender, race, nation, and class. prereq: instr consent

AFRO 8910 - Topics in Studies of Africa and the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMIN 5409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

AMST 8239 - Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in the United States: Readings

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Social, cultural, and artistic modes of self-expression. Intellectual analysis of people in the United States identified as female or male or as members of groups defined by race, ethnicity, class, or sexual orientation.

AMST 8240 - Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in the United States: Topical Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Social, cultural, and artistic modes of self-expression and intellectual analysis of people in the United States identified as female or male and/or as members of group defined by race, ethnicity, class, or sexual orientation. prereq: instr consent

ANTH 8001 - Ethnography, Theory, History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to foundational concepts, methods, and ethnographic work. Emphasizes theories that have shaped 20th-century thinking in cultural anthropology. Connection of these theories to fieldwork and contemporary issues.

ANTH 8002 - Ethnography: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts/perspectives in anthropology. Emphasizes American cultural anthropology. Rrecent work in semiotic, psychological, and feminist anthropology.

ANTH 8120 - Problems in Culture Change and Applied Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative studies of change in cultural systems. Impact of global processes on local cultures. Roles of anthropology and anthropologists in policy, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

ANTH 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Classic and current issues in research methodology, including positivist, interpretivist, feminist, and postmodernist frameworks. Methodology, in the broadest sense of the concept, is evaluated. Students conduct three research exercises and set up an ethnographic research project. prereq: Grad anth major or instr consent

ANTH 8205 - Economic Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 4053/8205
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theoretical foundations of economic anthropology examined through critical readings of traditional, classical, and contemporary authors. Ethnographic puzzles of material life and issues of ecological degradation, development, market expansion, gender, and transglobal processes.

ANTH 8207 - Political and Social Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Western concepts of politics, power, authority, society, state, and law. Cross-cultural approaches to these concepts in historical perspective. Major theoretical frameworks and current problems and positions in social and political anthropology. Ethnographic classics and new directions.

ANTH 8213 - Ecological Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar on method, theory, and key problems in ecological anthropology and human ecology. Examines approaches in light of human practices, interactions between culture and the environment, global environmental change, and our understanding of human dimensions of ecosystem-based management.

ANTH 8215 - Anthropology of Gender

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative, cross-cultural approach to gender. Focuses on various theories (e.g., feminist, postmodernist, psychoanalytic) of power, gender, authority, and femininity and masculinity. Gender ambiguity and issues of sexuality. prereq: Grad anth major or instr consent

APEC 5321 - Regional Economic Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Development patterns. Role of resources, transportation, and institutional constraints. Migration, investments in growth and change. Economic information in investment and location decisions. Economic development policies and tools. Economic impact analysis. prereq: 3006 or ECON 3102 or instr consent

APEC 5511 - Labor Economics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Theoretical foundations of labor markets. Intertemporal/household labor supply. Demand for labor, efficiency wages. Human capital theory, unemployment, migration decisions. Analysis of econometric research applied to labor policy issues such as minimum wage, tax policy, social insurance, education. prereq: [[3001 or Econ 3101 or PA 5021], [PA 5032 or equiv]] or instr consent

APEC 5731 - Economic Growth and International Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Economics of research and development. Technical change, productivity growth. Impact of technology on institutions. Science and technology policy. prereq: 3002 or [Econ 3101, Stat 3022]; Econ 4211 recommended

APEC 8601 - Natural Resource Economics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Economic analysis of resource use and management. Capital theory, dynamic resource allocation. Applications to renewable and nonrenewable resources. Empirical studies, policy issues. prereq: [5151, 8202, 8206 [ECON 5151 or equiv]] or instr consent

APEC 8602 - Economics of the Environment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Economic analysis of environmental management, emphasizing environmental policy. Application of microeconomic theory to problems of market failure, market-based pollution control policies, contingent valuation, hedonic models, option value, and other topics. prereq: 8004 or ECON 8004 or ECON 8104 or equiv or instr consent

APEC 8701 - Trade and Development I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

This course will analyze international trade and economic policies that affect trade. The course will consider the determinants of trade, the welfare effects of trade, and the implications of trade liberalization or protectionism. The course will use contemporary economic theory and econometric methods of analysis; and will provide an economic foundation for analyzing issues on the frontier of the academic literature and policy debate.

APEC 8702 - Trade and Development II

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course will focus on the applied microeonomics of international development. The course will focus on empirically testing the various theories developed to account for persistent economic underdevelopment and poverty. We will start from key ideas and methods in empirical development economics, then cover household models (both unitary and otherwise), intrahousehold models, market formation and market participation, land markets, technology adoption, risk and insurance, and other topics related to development microeconomics, all from an empirical perspective. prereq: First-year PhD level microeconomics and econometrics

CHIC 5920 - Topics in Chicana(o) Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Multidisciplinary themes in Chicana(o) studies. Issues of current interest.

COMM 8211 - Critical Communication Studies: History, Theory, Method

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Qualitative research methods for studying media institutions, texts, audiences, and contexts.

COMM 8451 - Seminar: Intercultural and Diversity Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Development of ideas/methods for research project, M.A. Plan B project, or Ph.D. dissertation. prereq: instr consent

CSCL 8001 - Basic Research Seminar in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CL 8001/CSCL 8001/CSDS 8001
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Key texts, positions, problematics in field of comparative critical theory. Historical precursors, influential contemporary debates, disciplinary genealogies.

CSCL 8002 - Basic Research Seminar in Comparative Literature II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CL 8002//CSCL 8002/CSDS 8002
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Key texts, positions, problematics in field of comparative critical theory. Special attention to historical precursors, influential contemporary debates, disciplinary genealogies.

CSCL 8362 - Modernity and Its Others

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Dialectical interrogation of Western and non-Western theories of modernity. Reckoning with differences and variations in its history, providing an account of the normative category of modernity (designated as European), and alternative articulations around the globe.

CSCL 8910 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 24.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CL 8910/CSCL 8910/CSDS 8910
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Practical applications of specific methodologies and theories to a determined area. Topics vary by instructor and semester.

CSCL 8920 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 8920/CSDS 8920
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Practical applications of specific methodologies and theories to a determined area. Topics vary by instructor and semester.

CONS 8095 - Contemporary Problems in Conservation Biology

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Comprehensive review of conservation biology issue. Written exam. prereq: 8004, FW 8452, instr consent

DES 5165 - Design and Globalization

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Des 4165/Des 5165
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course explores how culture, identity, and difference are defined and produced and the role that design plays in the production of difference, inequality, and marginalization. prereq: Grad student

DES 8166 - Material Culture and Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Research approaches to material culture study using artifacts from Goldstein Museum of Design. prereq: [DHA or DES] grad student or instr consent

ECON 8311 - Economic Growth and Development

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Methods of analyzing dynamical systems; applying methods to new models of growth and development; deriving and evaluating models' quantitative implications in light of growth and development in a number of countries. Seven-week course. prereq: 8104, 8106 or instr consent

ECON 8312 - Economic Growth and Development

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Methods of analyzing dynamical systems; applying methods to new models of growth and development; deriving and evaluating models' quantitative implications in light of growth and development in a number of countries. Seven-week course. prereq: 8311 or instr consent

ECON 8313 - Economic Growth and Development

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods of analyzing dynamical systems; applying methods to new models of growth and development; deriving and evaluating models' quantitative implications in light of growth and development in a number of countries. Seven-week course. prereq: 8312 or instr consent

ECON 8381 - Advanced Topics in Economic Development

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Faculty and student presentations based on recent literature. Seven-week course. prereq: 8312 or instr consent; offered when feasible

ECON 8391 - Workshop in Economic Growth and Development

Credits:	1.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Workshop in Economic Growth and Development prereq: instr consent

ECON 8401 - International Trade and Payments Theory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of trade on factor rentals. Stolper-Samuelson, Rybczynski, and factor price equalization theorems. Heckscher-Ohlin theorem. Derivation of offer curves and general international equilibrium. Transfer problem. Seven-week course. prereq: 8103, 8105 or instr consent

ECON 8402 - International Trade and Payments Theory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Tariffs, quotas, and other barriers to trade; gains from trade; trading blocs; increasing returns; growth. This is a seven-week course. prereq: 8401 or instr consent

ECON 8403 - International Trade and Payments Theory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

International business cycles; exchange rates; capital movements; international liquidity. This is a 7-week course. prereq: 8402 or instr consent

ECON 8404 - International Trade and Payments Theory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Theoretical models of international trade. Trade data, empirical work on trade. Seven week course. prereq: [8402, 8403] or instr consent

ECON 8481 - Advanced Topics in International Trade

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Faculty and student presentations based on recent literature. Seven-week course. prereq: 8403 or instr consent

ECON 8482 - Advanced Topics in International Trade

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Faculty and student presentations based on recent literature. Seven-week course. prereq: 8403 or instr consent

ECON 8491 - Workshop in Trade and Development

Credits:	1.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Workshop in Trade and Development prereq: instr consent

ECON 8492 - Workshop in Trade and Development

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

tbd prereq: instr consent

ENGL 5510 - Readings in Criticism and Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Major works of classical criticism in the English critical tradition from Renaissance to 1920. Leading theories of criticism from 1920 to present. Theories of fiction, narratology. Feminist criticisms. Marxist criticisms. Psychoanalytic criticisms. Theories of postmodernism.

ENGL 8190 - Seminar in 20th-Century Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics in Anglophone literatures of Canada, Africa, the Caribbean, India and Pakistan, and the Pacific. Sample topics: Stuart Hall and Black Britain; Salman Rushdie and cosmopolitan literatures; national literatures and partitioned states. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8400 - Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sample topics: Marxism and nationalism; modern India; feminism and decolonization; "the Empire Writes Back"; Islam and the West. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8510 - Studies in Criticism and Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Developments within critical theory that have affected literary criticism, by altering conceptions of its object ("literature") or by challenging conceptions of critical practice. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8520 - Seminar: Cultural Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sample topics: semiotics applied to perspective paintings, numbers, and money; analysis of a particular set of cultural practices by applying various theories to them. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8530 - Seminar in Feminist Criticism

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Brief history of feminist criticism, in-depth treatment of contemporary perspectives/issues. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ESPM 5061 - Water Quality and Natural Resources

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Recent literature in field. Complements 4061. Ecology of aquatic ecosystems, how they are valuable to society and changed by landscape management. Case studies, impaired waters, TMDL process, student engagement in simulating water quality decision making.

ESPM 5241 - Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3241W/ESPM 5241
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Political processes at play in management of environment and how disagreements are addressed by different stakeholders, private-sector interests, government agencies and institutions, communities, and nonprofit organizations. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

ESPM 5251 - Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3251/ESPM 5251/LAS 3251
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

International perspectives on resource use in developing countries. Integration of natural resource issues with social, economic, and policy considerations. Agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, non-timber forest products, water resources, certification, development issues. Latin American case studies. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

ESPM 5261 - Economics and Natural Resources Management

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3261/ESPM 5261
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Microeconomic principles and their application to natural resource management problems. Economic and policy tools to address market failures. Discussion of regulatory and market-based instruments. Discounting and compounding concepts. Methods for conducting financial and economic analyses of natural resource management projects. Decision criteria when conducting benefit/cost analysis of natural resource projects. Methods for valuing non-market natural resource goods and services. Economics of managing renewable natural resources such as forests and fisheries. Land economics. Payments for environmental services. Planning and management problems. Case studies.

FW 5003 - Human Dimensions of Biological Conservation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey of social, psychological, economic, policy aspects of managing/conserving wildlife, fisheries, and related resources. prereq: [Biol 1001 or Biol 1009], Biol 3407

FW 8452 - Conservation Biology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Seminar examining population- to system-level biological issues (genetics; demographic processes; community, ecosystem, and landscape scale interaction; restoration ecology; ex situ strategies for restoration and recovery) and societal issues (social, economic, cultural perspectives; sustainable development strategies; roles of institutions; international and U.S. policies).

GEOG 5385 - Globalization and Development: Political Economy

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Nature/scope of modern world system (capitalism), its impact on regional development processes. Roles of state and of international financial institutions. prereq: Sr or grad or instr consent

GEOG 8005 - Proseminar: Population Geography

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Conceptual literature and empirical studies on fertility, mortality, and migrations in different parts of the world. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8007 - Proseminar: Theories of Development and Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Recent research themes and questions in geography and related social sciences on Third World development; development theories, conceptually grounded case studies, and grassroots-based research. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8101 - Proseminar: Nature and Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interconnectedness of environment and people, nature and society. Conceptual literature and empirical studies in human/cultural/political ecology. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8212 - Africa

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Advanced topics. Topics vary with interests of faculty offering course. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8213 - East Asia and China

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Contemporary research, advanced topics. Topics vary with interests of faculty offering course. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8214 - South Asia

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Advanced topics. Topics vary with interests of faculty offering course.

GEOG 8220 - Agrarian Change and Rural Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Contours of agricultural/rural development in Third World. Theories of agrarian transformation and of rural development. Role of agriculture in economic development. Peasant economy. Nature/role of state intervention in rural sector.

GEOG 8240 - Medical Geography

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Geographic inquiry concerning selected problems of health and health care. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8336 - Development Theory and the State

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Why certain interventionist states in third world countries have been able to guide their economies to overcome legacy of underdevelopment while most have failed to induce development. Internal/external conditions that facilitated such departure from underdevelopment. Comparative national/provincial case studies: Taiwan, South Korea, Botswana, Brazil, India. Applying theoretical approaches to policy issues.

GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 5290 - Topics: Biology, Health, and Environmental Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics specified in class schedule.

GWSS 5390 - Topics: Visual, Cultural, and Literary Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 5490 - Topics: Political Economy and Global Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 8101 - Intellectual History of Feminism

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Major trends in feminist intellectual history from 14th century to the present, especially in the United States and Europe.

GWSS 8102 - Advanced Studies in Sexuality

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Contemporary theoretical scholarship/research on selected issues related to sexuality, gender, and the body. prereq: Priority given to feminist studies grad students

GWSS 8103 - Feminist Theories of Knowledge

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Interdisciplinary seminar. Feminist approaches to knowledge and to criticism of paradigms of knowledge operative in the disciplines. Feminist use of concepts of subjectivity, objectivity, and intersubjectivity. Feminist empiricism, standpoint theory, and contextualism. Postmodern and postcolonial theorizing.

GWSS 8108 - Genealogies of Feminist Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Two-semester seminar. First term: debates in gender theory; intersections of gender theory with critical race theory, post-colonial theory, sexuality theory, social class analysis. Second term: inter-/multi-disciplinary feminist research methodologies from humanities/social sciences. prereq: Feminist studies PhD or grad minor student or instr consent

GWSS 8109 - Feminist Knowledge Production

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Two-semester interdisciplinary seminar. First term: debates in gender theory; gender theory, critical race theory, post-colonial theory, sexuality theory, social class analysis. Second term: inter-/multi-disciplinary feminist research methods from humanities/social sciences. prereq: Feminist studies PhD or grad minor student or instr consent

GWSS 8201 - Feminist Theory and Methods in the Social Sciences

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar on recent theories, including feminist versions of positivist, interpretivist, critical theoretical, and postmodernist models of social science knowledge. Methodologies congenial to feminist practices of inquiry, including use of narrative in theory, feminist ethnography, discourse analysis, and comparative methods in history.

GWSS 8301 - Feminist Literary Criticism

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Recent developments and major issues in feminist studies of literature. Introduction to array of scholars and scholarship in field of feminist literary theory and criticism, emphasizing broad range of feminist textual analysis taking place in various University departments.

GLOS 5900 - Topics in Global Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Proseminar. Selected issues in global studies. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

HIST 5468 - Social Change in Modern China

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EAS 3468W/Hist 3468W/5468
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Opium War and opening of Treaty Ports in 19th century; missionary activity and cultural influence; changes in education system; women's movement; early industrialization; socialism and collectivization after 1949; industrialization of Taiwan; PRC's entry into the world trading system.

HIST 5547 - Empire and Nations in the Middle East

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Modernity in non-Western imperial context. Identity, ideology, economy, environment, language. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

HIST 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

HIST 5901 - Latin America Proseminar: Colonial

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Introduces beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students to major historical writings on various Latin American themes. prereq: instr consent

HIST 5902 - Latin America Proseminar: Modern

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Introduces beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students to major historical writings on various Latin American themes. prereq: instr consent

HIST 5932 - The Production of Knowledge, Negotiating the Past, and the Writing of African Histories

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5932/Hist 5932
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Recent scholarship on social history of Africa. Focuses on new literature on daily lives of ordinary people in their workplaces, communities, households.

HIST 8980 - Topics in Comparative Women's History

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Cross-cultural/thematic explorations in history of women. Gender/colonialism. Women/class formation. Women/religion. Sexuality. Medical construction of gender. Women's narratives as historical sources. Gender/politics. prereq: [advanced undergrad, instr consent]

HIST 8239 - Readings in Gender, Race, Class, and/or Ethnicity in the United States

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Dynamics of gender, racial, class, and ethnic relations in U.S. history; intersections of these forces. prereq: instr consent

HIST 8240 - Topics in Research in Gender, Race, Class, or Ethnicity in the United States

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Dynamics of gender, racial, class, and ethnic relations in U.S. history. Intersections of these forces. Topis vary by instructor. prereq: instr consent

HIST 8245 - Human Rights: A Global History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will focus on debates and social movements concerning human rights in the broadest sense, beginning with the seventeenth century and ending in the 1950s. Topics include colonization, slavery, torture, war crimes, rights to land, women's rights, sexual rights, and indigenous self-determination. The seminar will require a research or historiographical paper.

HIST 8390 - Research in American Indian History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Research/writing skills in American Indian history. Identify research questions, locate sources, conduct original research, produce substantial research paper.

HIST 8464 - Research in Yuan, Ming, and Qing History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Basic skills and resources for doing research in history of late imperial China. Bibliographic exercises; reading and translating primary documents. prereq: Good working knowledge of classical Chinese, background in history of late imperial China

HIST 8465 - Research in Yuan, Ming, and Qing History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Basic skills and resources for doing research in history of late imperial China. Students select, translate, and annotate texts appropriate to their research interests and write a research paper centering on these texts. prereq: Good working knowledge of classical Chinese, background in history of late imperial China

HIST 8630 - Seminar in World History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Critical examination of historical literature dealing with theoretical approaches to world history and teaching of world history. prereq: instr consent

HIST 8709 - Seminar: History of Sexuality

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theories of sexuality (by, e.g., Foucault, Butler, deLauretis), their application in history. Topics may include: feminist critique of Foucault and the classics, psycoanalytic approaches to religious transformations such as the Reformation, varying forms of gender transgression, sexuality in colonial encounters, operation of sexual metaphors in political conflict, and AIDS and the writing of history.

HIST 8920 - Topics in African History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8940 - Topics in Asian History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8944 - Research Seminar: New Directions in African Social History I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

First of two-part course. Rradical transformation in field of African social history during past two decades. Students select major research topic and begin preliminary investigation. prereq: instr consent

HIST 8945 - Research Seminar: New Directions in African Social History II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Second of two-part course. Students conceptualize and write major research paper. prereq: 8944, instr consent

HIST 8950 - Topics in Latin American History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8990 - Topics in Comparative History-Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics vary. Students read/discuss historical works from different geographic areas, develop proposals for comparative research, or pursue comparative research projects. prereq: instr consent

HSCI 5244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 3244/5244
Typically offered:	Every Fall

We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.

HSCI 5331 - Technology and American Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 3331/5331
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Development of American technology in its cultural/intellectual context from 1790 to present. Transfer of technology to America. Establishment of an infrastructure promoting economic growth. Social response to technological developments.

HSCI 5332 - Science in the Shaping of America

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSci 3332/5332
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

The British colonies of North America were founded in precisely the same centuries as a revolution in European�s understanding of nature, transformed by the ideas of Galileo, Newton, and Linnaeus and by the technologies of the industrial revolution. Native Americans and African Americans had their own knowledge of nature, and their close understanding intersected with the increasingly scientific techniques brought with European settlers and enhanced the survival and intellectual capacities of the newcomers. By demonstrating the diversity of scientists in the ever changing demographics of an immigrant nation, the course argues that this diversity and the capacities of newcomers contributed to the national success in science and engineering. The engagement with science at points were used to try to limit access by women or African-Americans, but sciences was also used to discredit false theories through ever expanding emphasis on empiricism as well as attention to the social and economic consequences of innovation. The goal is to demonstrate those historical linkages in particular places and institutions as they influenced and reinforced specific scientific work, while, at the same time, being attentive to how scientific ideas and practices were shaped by American culture.

HSCI 8441 - Women in Science: Historical Perspectives

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Key literature dealing with patterns of participation in science and medicine since the 18th century. The ways in which modern science is perceived to be gendered, particularly in its practice and in ways that seem to influence theory and applications. prereq: instr consent

HSCI 8940 - Seminar: History of Science and Technology in the Americas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

For advanced graduate students; topics in development of science and technology, emphasizing the United States and Canada. prereq: instr consent

HSCI 8950 - Seminar: Science and Technology in Cultural Settings

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

For advanced graduate students; topics in development of science and technology in or across specific geographic regions or particular cultures. prereq: instr consent

JOUR 8513 - Seminar: Ethnographic Methods in Mass Communication Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 8810/Jour 8513
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theoretical foundations in anthropology/sociology. Field projects. prereq: [8001, 8002] or instr consent; same as Anth 8810

JOUR 8681 - Seminar: International Media Perspectives

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Main problems/currents. Concepts, research, policy relevant to global development. Issues of freedom/constraint, media technology, role of journalism in world affairs.

JOUR 8721 - Media Organizations as Institutions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This seminar introduces students to key theories and concepts in the study of media organizations as institutions. It explores the influences and effects of media, the internal dynamics of media organizations, and criticism/modes of reform. It introduces students to foundational questions and perspectives in research about the communicative processes of established and more diffused media organizations, including in journalism, health communication, and strategic communication. And it assesses theoretical frameworks for analysis from a multiplicity of viewpoints including sociology of work, organizational communication, management studies, etc.

JOUR 8801 - Seminar: Comparative Research in Mass Communication, a Cross-National Approach

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative research designs/strategies. Analysis of production, presentation, transmission, and consumption of mass media products/services (particularly news, entertainment, and information) across national borders. Theoretical concerns, empirical problems, policy. Ethical issues involving research on form/content of mass communication within/between countries. prereq: 4801 or 5825

MUS 8864 - Current Issues in Ethnomusicology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ethnomusicological methods, theorizing, and research practice. Current issues in monographs, journals, and anthologies. Fieldwork practicum. prereq: instr consent

OLPD 5103 - Comparative Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Examination of systems and philosophies of education globally with emphasis upon African, Asian, European, and North American nations. Foundations of comparative study with selected case studies.

OLPD 5104 - Education and the Sustainable Development Goals

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides a critical analysis of strategies used to improve educational outcomes worldwide. This course examines contemporary trends in educational policy, development, and practice, focusing on how?s and why?s of educational change. Empirical studies, organizational reports, and student experiences all inform class discussion. prereq: Grad student

OLPD 5121 - Educational Reform in International Context

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Critical policy analysis of educational innovation and reform in selected countries. Use theoretical perspectives and a variety of policy analysis approaches to examine actual educational reforms and their implementation.

OLPD 5124 - Critical Issues in International Education and Educational Exchange

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of comprehensive policy-oriented frameworks for international education; practices of U.S. and other universities; conceptual development of international education and its practical application to programs, to employment choices, and to pedagogy.

OLPD 5128 - Anthropology of Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5128/OLPD 5128
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Insights from educational anthropology for educators to address issues of culture, ethnicity, and power in schools.

OLPD 5132 - Intercultural Education and Training: Theory and Application

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to the field of intercultural education and related field of multicultural education; analyzes the field through a critical lens; examines diverse meanings of education, including cultural knowledge.

OLPD 8121 - Doctoral Seminar: Comparative and International Development Education

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Three-semester sequence beginning the second semester of PhD program aimed at guiding students through the development of a critical issue for the dissertation; review of relevant literature; and methodology for doctoral research; supports students as they prepare for written and oral qualifying examinations and prospectus meeting. prereq: OLPD PhD candidate

PHIL 8600 - Workshop in the Philosophy of Science

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics vary by offering. prereq: concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4xxx phil of sci course, instr consent

PHIL 8660 - Seminar: Social and Cultural Studies of Science

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 8660/SST 8420
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Review of recent work; analysis of theoretical and methodological differences among practitioners; selected responses from historians and philosophers of science.

PHIL 8670 - Seminar: Philosophy of Science

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics vary by offering. prereq: instr consent

POL 8235 - Democratic Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Competing models of democracy: classical, republican, liberal, radical, Marxist, neo-Marxist, pragmatist, populist, pluralist, postmodern, participatory. Domestic and international struggles over meaning of "democracy"; social science models of and findings on democracy. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8275 - Contemporary Political Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

From approximately World War II to the present. Survey of range of texts or intensive focus on such authors as Adorno, Arendt, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer, Rawls, Said. Sample topics: feminism, postmodernism, communitarianism, Frankfurt School, postcolonialism. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8401 - International Relations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basic theories/approaches to study of international politics. Surveys representative work/central issues of scholarship. prereq: Grad pol sci major or dept consent

POL 8402 - International Security

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Introduction to contending theories of international conflict/security. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8403 - International Norms and Institutions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Origins, roles, and effectiveness of international norms and institutions; theoretical explanations and debates. Institution of sovereignty; rational choice versus constructivist perspectives; role of international law, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations; and international society and transnational cultural norms. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8404 - International Hierarchy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSDS 8404/Pol 8404
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Asymmetric structures and processes of international relations; systemic conditions and implications of informal empire and structures of hegemony; cultural productions of difference and inequality. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8405 - International Political Economy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theoretical and policy issues in international economic relations. Different approaches for understanding outcomes in international economy. Trade, finance, labor markets, creation and maintenance of international regimes, and "globalization" of economic liberalism. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8406 - Politics of International Finance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Relationship between workings of the international political system and that of international markets for currency and capital. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8407 - Morality in World Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Approaches to normative theorizing and empirical research on moral norms in world politics. Theoretical topics: realism, communitarianism, consequentialism, constructivism, postmodernism, cultural relativism. Substantive issue areas: famine and foreign aid, just war theory, nuclear weapons, moral implications of technology, case study on war (Gulf War). prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8408 - International Relations of the Environment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Theory and practice of international environmental politics. Emergence of environment as major issue of international relations. Diversities of agendas and politics. Imperatives, templates, resistance in global efforts to forge an applied politics of environmental sustainability. Selected cases. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8411 - Political Psychology and Foreign Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Foreign policy theories about decision makers and audiences. Impact of human nature, formal institutions, cultural and cross-cultural settings, and kinds of issues on foreign policy choice, control, and justification. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8412 - American Foreign Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

U.S. policy toward foreign states and peoples: heritage, motivations, policy processes, what the public generally knows and wants, specific policies. Rise of intermestic issues and decline of enemy-focused internationalism; implications for process and content of U.S. foreign policy. prereq: 8410 or instr consent

POL 8460 - Topics in International Relations

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in advanced topics or problems. Recent topics: global environmental issues, morality in world politics, and norms and institutions in world politics.

POL 8601 - Introduction to Comparative Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Main theoretical approaches and issues: comparative method, the state and class; political culture; development, democratization, rational choice, social movements. prereq: Grad pol sci major

POL 8605 - Government and Politics in Africa

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theoretical and methodological approaches to study of African politics, focusing on pre-colonial and colonial legacies for post-colonial reality. Local politics, social construction of identities, political economy of peasantry and working class, political development and decay, social movements, and prospects for democracy. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8608 - Government and Politics of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Framework for understanding politics of change underway in the former Soviet Union. Roots of current transformation, including causes and legacy of the Russian revolution and creation of the Soviet Union. Issues in current transformation, including nationalism, economic reform, and democratization. Prior knowledge of basic Soviet politics is assumed. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8611 - Chinese Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Major issues since 1949: democratization, dissent, violence, gender, capitalist and socialist development strategies, inequality, effect of culture on politics, status of Taiwan. Current scholarly debates on Chinese politics. Professional methods for research on contemporary China. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8619 - Latin American Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Major bodies of theory on development, democracy and redemocratization, social movements, civil society, the state, and transnational linkages. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8633 - Comparative Sociopolitical Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Critical evaluation of literature and theoretical perspectives; comparative examination of social and political change and interrelationship between both processes; structure/agency nexus. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8637 - Comparative Political Economy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Connections between democracy and markets, emphasizing experiences of countries in North America and Europe. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8641 - Comparative Mass Political Behavior

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

Examined from a cross-national perspective. Development of political participation, mobilization and its effects, development of political cleavages and political parties as vehicles of conflict, modes of political behavior under varied systems of representation and varied party systems. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8643 - Comparative Political Institutions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Structure/operation of various political institutions in different settings. Theoretical approaches, comparative frameworks. Introduction to literature on political institutions. Preparation for comparative research on political institutions. prereq: Pol sci grad student or instr consent

POL 8660 - Topics in Comparative Politics -- Comparative Political Economy of Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings in advanced topics or problems. Supervised research/training. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

PA 5301 - Population Methods & Issues for the United States & Global South

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 5301/Soc 5511
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Basic demographic measures/methodology. Demographic transition, mortality, fertility. Perspectives on nonmarital fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation. Cultural differences in family structure, aging, migration, refugee movements, population policies. Discussion of readings. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5421 - Racial Inequality and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical roots of racial inequality in American society. Contemporary economic consequences. Public policy responses to racial inequality. Emphasizes thinking/analysis that is critical of strategies offered for reducing racism and racial economic inequality. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5480 - Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Link between race/ethnicity and public policy. How to identify/measure racial/ethnic disparities and their historical/cultural origins and policy impacts and to craft politically feasible remedies. Topics may include criminal justice, housing, child welfare, and education. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent

PA 5501 - Theories and Policies of Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

What makes some countries wealthier than others, one group of people healthier and more educated than another? How does the behavior of rich nations affect poor nations? Origins of development thought, contemporary frameworks and policy debates. Economic, human, and sustainable development. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5511 - Community Economic Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Contexts/motivations behind community economic development activities. Alternative strategies for organizing/initiating economic development projects. Tools/techniques for economic development analysis/planning (market analysis, feasibility studies, development plans). Implementation at local level. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5521 - Development Planning and Policy Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Techniques of development planning/policy analysis at national, regional, and project levels. Effects of external shocks and government interventions on national/regional economies. Macroeconomic modeling, input-output analysis, social accounting matrices/multipliers, project evaluation. prereq: 5031 or equiv recommended or instr consent

PA 5522 - International Development Policy, Families, and Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Implications of paid/unpaid labor for development policy, using household as prism. Legal/cultural use of property rights. Financial effects of ill health. Caregiving. Work-family conflict, policies that alleviate it. Role of gender. Qualitativequantitative methods. Readings, lectures, discussions. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5590 - Topics in Economic and Community Development

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5601 - Global Survey of Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to the key concepts and tools necessary for gender policy analysis. Survey of the major findings in the field of gender and public policy in policy areas such as poverty alleviation, health, international security, environment and work-family reconciliation. Scope includes local, national, and global policy arenas as well as exploration of gender and the politics of policy formulation.

PA 5690 - Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	0.5 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5711 - Science, Technology & Environmental Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Interplay of science, technology, the environment, and society. Approaches from across the social sciences will cover how science and technology can create new environmental pressures as well as policy challenges in a range of spheres from climate change to systems of intellectual property and international development.

PA 5721 - Energy Systems and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of energy production/consumption choices on environmental quality, sustainable development, and other economic/social goals. Emphasizes public policy choices for energy/environment, linkages between them.

PA 5722 - Economics of Environmental Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to economic principles and methods as they apply to environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, and water quality. Course will cover benefit-cost analysis, methods of environmental valuation, as well as critiques of market-based solutions to environmental challenges.

PA 5801 - Global Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores the emergence and evolution of rules, norms, and institutions that constitute international relations. It will focus, in particular, on those related to questions of war, peace, and governance. For students with an interest in international security, foreign military intervention, democracy and governance promotion, and the political economy of aid.

PA 5890 - Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs

Credits:	0.5 -5.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 8690 - Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 8890 - Advanced Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6131 - Working in Global Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to key issues in global health. Global burden of disease. Cultural issues/health. Nutrition. Infectious diseases. Environmental problems. Women/children. Prereq Grad student.

SOC 8211 - The Sociology of Race & Racialization

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Major theoretical debates. Classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to studying U.S. race relations; contemporary and historical experiences of specific racial and ethnic groups.

SOC 8221 - Sociology of Gender

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 8221/WoSt 8202
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Organization, culture, and dynamics of gender relations and gendered social structures. Sample topics: gender, race, and class inequalities in the workplace; women.s movement; social welfare and politics of gender inequality; theoretical and methodological debates in gender studies; sexuality; science; sociology of emotions.

SOC 8290 - Topics in Race, Class, Gender and other forms of Durable Inequality

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Comparative perspectives on racial inequality; race, class, and gender; quantitative research on gender stratification; stratification in post-communist societies; institutional change and stratification systems; industrialization and stratification. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

SOC 8311 - Political Sociology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Social dimensions of political behavior and social origins of different forms of the state. How various theoretical traditions--Marxist, Weberian, and feminist--address key issues in political sociology, including citizenship, revolution, state formation, origins of democracy, welfare state, and fascism.

SOC 8701 - Sociological Theory

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Traditions of social theory basic to sociological knowledge, their reflection and expansion in contemporary theory, their applications in selected areas of empirical research. Sample topics: social inequality, social organization and politics, family organization and social reproduction, social order and change, sociology of knowledge and religion.

SOC 8790 - Advanced Topics in Sociological Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Sample topics: theories of conflict, theories of purposive action, Marxist theory, and structure-agency debate.

SPAN 5985 - Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Spanish in the United States

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Sociolinguistic analysis of issues such as language maintenance/shift in U.S. Latino communities, code switching, attitudes of Spanish speakers toward varieties of Spanish and English, language change in bilingual communities, and language policy issues. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

SPAN 8960 - Workshop: Research in Hispanic Cultural Issues

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Individualized support and advice in framing, theorizing, problematizing, and interpreting areas of cultural research. Taught in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. prereq: Reading knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese

SPAN 8990 - Advanced Comparative Research of Caribbean Genres

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Major literary works and genres of Caribbean literature studied against the background of sociohistorical vicissitudes of the process leading to the formation and consolidation of the national states. prereq: 5525 or instr consent

SPPT 5930 - Selected Topics in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultural Discourse

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Cultural discourses in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas. Historical intersections/divergences. Taught in Spanish or Portuguese, and in English when cross-listed. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: Reading knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese

SCMC 5001 - Critical Debates in the Study of Cinema and Media Culture

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course serves as a capstone within the Studies in Cinema and Media Culture program as well as an advanced seminar in cinema and media theory. It covers such topics as contemporary cinema, transnational television, video games, digital networks, and surveillance technologies. It builds on the knowledge of cinema and media studies that students have developed over their undergraduate education. Students are given the resources and encouragement to construct larger reading and viewing lists that will further develop their knowledge of media and cinema. The final grade is based on participation, critical essays, weekly viewing assignments, and an individualized project that can include creative and professional interests.

SST 8400 - Seminar: Science, Technology, and Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students participate in ongoing research on interactions involving science, technology, and society from perspectives of history, philosophy, and social study of science, and prepare and present research papers. prereq: HSci 8111 or [Phil 8601 or Phil 8602 or Phil 8605] or instr consent

SST 8420 - Seminar: Social and Cultural Studies of Science

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phil 8660/SST 8420
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Recent work; theoretical and methodological differences among practitioners; selected responses from historians and philosophers of science.

SAGR 8010 - Colloquium in Sustainable Agriculture

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Forum for University faculty and students, and representatives of the farming community, including farmers, grassroots organizations, agricultural businesses, and representatives of state agencies, to engage in discussions on topics related to sustainability of food production. prereq: Coursework in biological or social sciences that provides intro to ag practices or issues

SAGR 8020 - Field Experience in Sustainable Agriculture

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

3- to 14-week internship with growers or organizations working with sustainable agriculture issues. Students analyze issues in final written project, oral seminar. prereq: Coursework in biological or social sciences that provides intro to ag practices or issues

TH 5117 - Performance and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Reading, writing, research, presentations and workshops explore activist performance projects. Theories of social formation and ideology provide framework to discuss/animate theater's potential for social change. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student

DSSC 8111 - Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Approaches practiced by physical, biological, social science, and humanities scholars. "Ways of knowing" in different cultures/groups. Issues/methodological challenges facing interdisciplinary/international studies. Taught by faculty from biological, social sciences, and humanities. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8112 - Scholarship and Public Responsibility

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Seminar. Concerns/themes relevant to public engagement in academic work. Diverse practices of reading, writing, and pedagogy. Privileged locations of knowledge. Tactics of civil society organizing. Politics of collaborative work. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8310 - Topics in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seven-week to full semester seminar. Topical issues in development and social change.

DSSC 8111 - Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Approaches practiced by physical, biological, social science, and humanities scholars. "Ways of knowing" in different cultures/groups. Issues/methodological challenges facing interdisciplinary/international studies. Taught by faculty from biological, social sciences, and humanities. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8112 - Scholarship and Public Responsibility

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Seminar. Concerns/themes relevant to public engagement in academic work. Diverse practices of reading, writing, and pedagogy. Privileged locations of knowledge. Tactics of civil society organizing. Politics of collaborative work. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8211 - Doctoral Research Workshop in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Interdisciplinary workshop to assist doctoral students in writing successful research and grant proposals to support their dissertation research on themes related to global social change. Enables students to develop interdisciplinary peer review and feedback skills and consider ethical and practical issues global south research. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8310 - Topics in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seven-week to full semester seminar. Topical issues in development and social change.

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Developmental Studies and Social Change Minor